Week 8 IT 28
‘ian’ / ‘ion’ suffixes, person words and abstract nouns
•This teacher led activity revisits the person word morpheme ‘ian’ from
weeks 6 and 7, along with the introduction of the ‘ion’ morpheme to form
abstract nouns.
•Children are reminded of the ‘ian’ person ending and asked in a series of
questions to add the appropriate morpheme by deciding if the new word is
a person word (‘ian’) or not (‘ion’).
•Children see the stem word and are asked to think which type of word
they will be making, person word or not, and then prompted to write by the
pencil symbol appearing on screen.
•Children have an answer sheet (see next slide) which needs to be printed
off before the lesson.
•After the children have had chance to write down their decision and say
why they chose a certain morpheme, correct feedback appears on the
screen.
•At the end of the task, children are asked to make 2 lists of words, the
person words and the non-person (nouns). There is a space on their
worksheet to write these 2 lists.
• A slide with correct feedback appears at the end for them to check
against their lists.
Answer sheet IT 28
‘ian’ or ‘ion’ ?
Name:…………………………
Date:………………………….
‘ian’ words are ………………………………….. words
eg 1 mathematic……………………
‘ion’ words are ……… person words.
e.g.2 collect
collect………………….
1. magic
magic……………………
2. infect
infect………………….
3. music
music …………………
4. protect
protect ……………….
5. add
add …………………….
6. library
librar ……………….
7. attract
attract …………..
8. beauty
beauti………………..
9. subtract
subtract …………
10.electric
electric …………
11.clinic
clinic………………….
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Do you remember words that
end in –ian?
ian
What type of words are they?
e.g. 1
Did you remember
‘ian’ is for person words?
mathematic ian
……
What about words ending with ‘ion’?
ion
These are not person words
e.g.
Is it a person word?
collect
No
collection
?
Here are some words for
you to add correct endings.
Are you ready?
Think, is it a person word?
Person words end in ‘ian’
If they are not person words they end in ‘ion’.
1.
magic
?
magician
2.
infect
infection
3.
music
musician
4.
protect
protection
5.
add
addition
1+2=3
6.
library
librarian
7.
attract
attraction
8.
beauty
beauty
beautician
?
9.
subtract
subtraction
3-2=1
10.
electric
electrician
11.
clinic
clinician
Can you put these words into
a list of person words and a
list which are not person
words?
addition
infection
collection
musician
beautician
subtraction
magician
librarian
protection
attraction
electrician
clinician
Person words:
ian
Not person words:
ion
magician
collection
musician
infection
librarian
protection
beautician
addition
electrician
attraction
clinician
subtraction